When SAPS tabled its 2013/14 annual report, the media was quick to pick up on the massive amount for contingency liabilities; a total of R20.5 billion. This represents just under 30% of the total 2013/14 SAPS budget. Contingency liabilities are all claims pending against SAPS, and might or might not result in payment when the claim…

The Democratic Alliance, if elected to run the next national government, will make it a top election priority to put “250 000 properly trained police officers on the streets”. DA leader Helen Zille reiterated this statement during the anti-crime march in Mitchells Plain held on April 6 2014. She added that the DA would do this…

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Gwen Dereymaeker is a researcher at the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, a project of the Community Law Centre, at the University of the Western Cape. She has previously worked in the field of international criminal law and international relations. Her interest lies in the frontier between law and politics, and anything that speaks to both will get her chatting.